Startups

  • Reviewr takes its application review platform beyond pitch competitions

    Reviewr takes its application review platform beyond pitch competitions

    “Pitch Burner” worked as a name at first. Founded in 2013, the Lincoln-based company Pitch Burner started as a way to soothe one of Joseph Knecht’s pet peeves. As a frequent judge in pitch competitions, he was tired of putting together feedback that seemed to just get thrown away afterward. So Pitch Burner began by targeting the…

  • KNOXX brings personality to the hiring process

    KNOXX brings personality to the hiring process

    When frustration with current recruitment platforms boiled over, Wichita entrepreneur Mike Mathia took matters into his own hands. Mathia noticed a trend of companies unnecessarily exhausting time and resources during the interviewing process. He also noticed that many applicants looked great on paper, but did not meet company standards when placed in an interview setting. Other…

  • Integrated Animal Health helps bring game-changing animal health products to market

    Integrated Animal Health helps bring game-changing animal health products to market

    Integrated Animal Health connects emerging technologies with the livestock industry’s established companies and distributors. With a focus on working with developers of new technologies, Integrated Animal Health strives to produce alternatives to antibiotics, hormone therapies, pesticides, and other animal healthcare products. With the increasing government regulation of what goes into food and food products, in addition to growing consumer demand for…

  • ClikHome helps renters find the perfect place to live

    ClikHome helps renters find the perfect place to live

    The tedious act of apartment hunting can break even the strongest-willed people. But for Junjie Shi and Nick Kljaic, searching for places to live inspired them to develop a website that streamlines what was once frustrating into an easier, more personalized process. Shi and and Kljaic met while working as finance professionals on Wall Street…

  • GoldFynch’s cloud-based e-discovery platform automates sorting for legal teams

    GoldFynch’s cloud-based e-discovery platform automates sorting for legal teams

    GoldFynch empowers attorneys and other professionals to accelerate the process of sorting and reviewing integral documents or files. Introduced to one another at the University of Iowa, GoldFynch co-founders Ross Johnson and Anith Mathai focused first on the potential for a photo and document management tool that would provide users with a unique mechanism to chronicle…

  • Upcraft Club wins $40,000 at national InnovateHER competition in DC

    Upcraft Club wins $40,000 at national InnovateHER competition in DC

    Elizabeth Caven, founder of Upcraft Club, won 1st Place in the SBA’s InnovateHER Challenge last night in Washington, DC, winning $40,000 from Microsoft for her pitch. Caven was one of 10 finalists from across the country, after winning a local Innovate HER in Des Moines at Gravitate last summer. “The SBA really has a great initiative supporting women…

  • PinPoint offers small businesses the loyalty card of the future

    PinPoint offers small businesses the loyalty card of the future

    PinPoint is a free community loyalty rewards program that offers customers discounts and rewards to a variety of merchants through the use of a single card. With PinPoint customers can receive welcome, birthday, anniversary and payback rewards to many retailers, restaurants, services and entertainment businesses in the local area. Based in Omaha, Nebraska, Pinpoint currently…

  • Sideline Power puts the latest sports tech in coaches’ hands

    Sideline Power puts the latest sports tech in coaches’ hands

    In 2011, Hudl purchased its primary competitor in the high school football market, DSV. Matt Starr, now the founder and CEO of Sideline Power was a sales manager at DSV at the time of the buyout. “What we did was basically what Hudl did, but Hudl took what we were doing and took it a…

  • miTRAX helps patients and doctors track post-op recovery

    miTRAX helps patients and doctors track post-op recovery

    Lincoln startup miTRAX is working on a solution that will help health care providers improve work flow efficiency and patient outcomes with the goal of improved care and reduced expense. “Our business is patient/procedure management in the orthopedic space,” said Rob Barie, President of miTRAX. “We’ve taken patient education, engagement and outcomes and created a…

  • QA with Paul Oliver: “Studiocode is basically Hudl for doctors and nurses”

    QA with Paul Oliver: “Studiocode is basically Hudl for doctors and nurses”

    Paul Oliver is Lead Software Developer for Studiocode, a joint venture between Hudl and Nelnet in Lincoln, Nebraska. Oliver will be presenting on microservices at AIM Infotec on March 21st. SPN caught up with Oliver over phone. SPN: For readers who aren’t familiar with Studiocode, describe what you do there. PO: A while back Hudl…